A Beginner’s Guide to Famiglia
Lily
The drive back was nice. Beautiful weather, light traffic, Audioslave blaring out my speakers, a handsome raven-haired hunk in the passenger’s seat singing along. We were prepared to fac...
2025-06-30 15:21:08 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to Boat Stuff
Lily
I’d said it. I’d admitted it. I was a bisexual woman, and I had a wicked hot boyfriend, and he was being honest with me and he wasn’t ashamed to be seen with me! Olivia alway...
2025-06-25 17:42:26 +0000 UTC
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Month 12: June
Samantha
It didn’t rain at my father’s funeral. Instead, we got mist. A moderate fog, the last gasp of the vernal days before we all began to burn in the furnace of California’s summer....
2025-06-23 16:19:38 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to the Morning After
Crispin
For the second day in a row, I woke up to Lily DiGiacomo’s curvy, delicate body wrapped around mine as she breathed into the crook of my neck. This time, though? No gui...
2025-06-18 17:27:08 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: Aaaaannnndddd here we are! The moment you've all been waiting for. Time for everything to change, and everyone to get a much-needed wake-up call. Thank you for coming with me on this journey as I tell you the story of the two m...
2025-06-11 17:42:52 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to Gentlemanly Conduct
Crispin
I found Lily laying on the living room couch, curled up under a blanket and scrolling her phone with a distraught expression. Doom-spiralling, probably. Given the state of the world, I ...
2025-06-04 15:27:07 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: Happy Pride Month! Hope you're hungry, because you're getting multiple chapters this week!
A Beginner's Guide to Taking the Plunge
Lily
I’d expected something a bit like Crispin’s family house in the c...
2025-06-02 20:40:57 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to Strategic Exits
Crispin
18 Hours Earlier
“Hey,” Sarah O’Neil said as she approached me, every ounce as beautiful as when I’d last laid eyes on her.
“Uh… Hi,...
2025-05-28 15:59:34 +0000 UTC
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author's note: hello, all! Just a heads up, this is a short story I wrote for Pride Month coming up! I had so much fun with it I'll probably do more with the characters and setting in the future! It's also available for sale on Itch!
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2025-05-27 18:34:26 +0000 UTC
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Author's Note: aaaaaaannnnnndddddd here we go. Fun fact: this chapter contains the first scene I ever wrote for this story. See if you can guess which one.
A Beginner’s Guide to Bi Awakenings
Lily
I st...
2025-05-21 17:52:08 +0000 UTC
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Hello, all! Just a heads up that I'm looking for an agent for BGC! Unfortunately, this means I have to take down most of the online version, BUT I am leaving chapters 1-5 up as a sneak-preview! Thank you so much for your support!
2025-05-19 17:01:47 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to Sunday Service
Crispin
The Morning of the Museum Trip
Holy Absolution was a nice church, if a bit more casual than I was used to. A lot of the parishioners were aging hippies by t...
2025-05-19 15:54:37 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to Therapy
Lily
Now
Two weeks after that fateful day at the museum, I walked up to my therapist’s office in a long, sheer pink skirt and white tank top for my monthly session. My han...
2025-05-15 16:15:51 +0000 UTC
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Author's note: hello! Heard y'all like multiple posts per week so here's another chapter!
Also, just a heads up: I'm looking for an agent for "Beginner's Guide to Catfishing" so I can have it traditiona...
2025-05-14 17:08:38 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner's Guide to Making Amends
Crispin
“So this is the first place on the list?” I asked.
“Ten-four on that one, my dude,” Rachel said, looking at her phone as we stood outside of the bar. ...
2025-05-13 17:10:16 +0000 UTC
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Lily
“They bought it! They really bought it! High five!” I said, raising my palm and anticipating the sensation of Cris’ skin touching mine.
Unfortunately, no skin-on-skin occurred: Crispin was too busy looking at me like I...
2025-05-08 16:47:35 +0000 UTC
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Eli
A lone shard of sunlight snuck through the blinds of Samantha’s… Of our bedroom window. I still had these moments where I had to remind myself I wasn’t a guest here, that this was my home as much as it was Samantha’s. The ray of ...
2025-05-06 17:00:28 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to Parental Approval
Crispin
13 Years Ago
I walked arm in arm with Julia Henderson, humming to myself as I brought her to the front door of her family’s mansion. W...
2025-05-02 19:56:25 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to Makeovers
Lily
3 Years Ago
“What are you wearing?” Olivia said, eyes narrow, frown deep-set, fists on her hips.
I stood in my kitchen, bathed in sunlight and awash with the marinar...
2025-04-25 17:08:43 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to Childhood Friends
Crispin
Lily and I sat next to each other in Rose and Kyle’s living room. The place was homey: the walls were plastered with photos of the two of them, the dishwasher was running, a muted bas...
2025-04-25 17:06:01 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to Weathering Storms
Lily
I stared at Crispin blankly as he finished providing context for the utterly insane thing he’d said upon walking into my office. This absurd, well-intentioned, shockingl...
2025-04-18 16:19:28 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to the War at Home
Crispin
Twelve Hours Earlier
I woke up and started my day the way I always like to: with my head between a girl’s legs, tongue sliding over her pussy lips, smell...
2025-04-16 19:04:58 +0000 UTC
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A Beginner’s Guide to First Impressions
Lily
“Presenting Crispin Eric Winfield IV, of the Boston Winfields, and his betrothed, Lily Arianna DiGiacomo of… The North End,” a perturbed, graying butler with stooped...
2025-04-11 16:36:26 +0000 UTC
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Month 10: April
Samantha
“How was therapy?” ;Bethany asked while she spotted me.
I laid on the bench-press, attempting to force a comically small amount of weight over my head with mixed results. Bethan...
2025-04-08 16:53:33 +0000 UTC
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Briar Rose
I found Mallory’s study how I’d last seen it a few years ago: a bland, nondescript room with a mahogany desk and a truly staggering number of filing cabinets. The place had been scrubbed clean of any trace of my late mother, m...
2025-03-28 16:43:49 +0000 UTC
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Kyle
I’d once thought Rose’s former bedroom at our place was the most sterile, lifeless thing I’d ever seen. Looking at Mallory’s place, it seemed my fiance came by it honestly. It was all so aggressively beige: the wallpaper, the be...
2025-03-21 17:28:52 +0000 UTC
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Briar Rose
“You realize of course that this is completely deranged, yes?” Ruth as she drank in the sight of me in a black catering uniform with a black pill-box hat covering my hair. We stood in her driveway, sunset only now beginn...
2025-03-14 15:47:52 +0000 UTC
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Okay, last week I talked about how Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series handles the concept of Love at First Sight in regard to its romantic subplots, which was super fun (you should read it). This week, however, we’re not talking abo...
2025-03-11 17:58:35 +0000 UTC
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Kyle
I waited in the lobby of the sterile, all-white doctors’ office while Rose had her consultation. I was set to drive her back to work once her consultation was finished, and I passed the time reading the sports section of the Globe...
2025-03-07 16:23:52 +0000 UTC
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Month 9: March
Eli
“I’m worried about her,” I said, standing behind the counter at the shop, drumming my fingers on the surface.
“When aren’t you worried about her?” Tio Miguel said as he flippe...
2025-03-04 18:34:35 +0000 UTC
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